Explosives Training Manager

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Pay Range

$160,890 - $204,036 Annually for the TSL.3 level

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

We have an opening for an Explosives Training Manager to oversee the training, qualification and certification program supporting multiple facilities. You will directly support the Explosive Operations program by implementing and maintaining a robust training program that is systematically derived using instructional systems design processes. This position is closely tied to operational and programmatic operations and includes interaction with multiple leaders and explosive experts in a high consequence environment. You will collaborate with Explosives Facility Managers, Explosives Safety Experts and Programmatic Leadership to ensure the High Explosives Training program meets operational requirements. This position demands expert facilitation and leadership skills, as well as innovation in various training modalities (e.g., web-based, video, OJT, lecture, classroom) while simultaneously ensuring the training program meets LLNS contract requirements, DOE-STD-1212 and other federal and state regulation, and LLNL policies and procedures. You will leverage your technical experience, strong communication, leadership, and planning skills to budget for and lead a training program in designing, developing, and maintaining an efficient and effective training program, ensuring LLNL SD Explosive Operations has a workforce trained and qualified to meet the demands of a research and development (R&D) hazardous facility in a heavily regulated environment. This position is in the Strategic Deterrence (SD) Directorate.

This position requires full-time on-site presence due to the nature of the work.

In this role, you will

• Establish and maintain an explosives training program that meet LLNL contract requirements, DOE directives, and industry standards for training development. This includes managing the Explosives Handler Certification program.
• Represent the Explosives Safety Committee (ESC) in managing all aspects of explosives training for the LLNL explosives handler population, including writing performance-based training, instructional design methodology, and writing institutional policy.
• Manage and guide the development and implementation of plans, guidelines, procedures and other mechanisms that establish, direct, administer, and evaluate the effectiveness of the training program.
• Serve as the Chairperson of the Explosives Safety Committee (ESC) training subcommittee and explosives certification boards while ensuring that changing organizational processes and procedures are appropriately flowed down into applicable training procedures, programs, plans and courses.
• Partner with facility, programmatic, and training personnel to ensure the training program meets operational needs at LLNL work locations while simultaneously meeting LLNL Training Program Manual and DOE Explosives Safety Standard requirements.
• Lead a team of Training Specialists, Administrators and a Training Committee composed of Explosives Subject Matter Experts and Operational Experts to build, maintain, and refine a highly technical training program with an emphasis on safety, compliance and effectiveness.
• Design, develop, and produce complex explosives training curricula using a spectrum of instructional methods and media, including print, video, instructor-led, and/or multi-media/online.
• Manage third-party vendor contracts and their training materials to ensure compliance with operational and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate and deliver technical/explosives training as required, both on and off-site.
• This position requires periodic travel.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor's Degree in Training and Development, Management, Explosives Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience engaging in and leading multi-disciplinary teams in safety critical environments, conducting management assessments, incident analyses, effectiveness reviews, or other equivalent assessment processes.
• Advanced technical knowledge and demonstrated leadership experience in high hazard environments.
• Demonstrated advanced experience training and coaching others in the safe management and handling of hazardous materials.
• Demonstrated ability to champion, lead, and develop creative cutting-edge solutions, principles, theories, and concepts; coupled with experience providing expert technical and process instruction to engineers, technicians, and operations staff.
• Proven knowledge and use of computer software applications enlisted for training development.
• Advanced written and verbal communication and collaboration skills necessary to lead a team, effectively present technical knowledge, and provide advice to senior management, external sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Advanced experience making critical decisions, meeting critical deadlines, resolving highly complex problems, and implementing solutions, often under conditions of uncertainty.

Qualifications We Desire

• Experience exercising a high degree of maturity, discretion, independence, and judgment with moderate to high programmatic and high safety related consequences of error.
• Extensive knowledge of current Federal, State, local, and explosives safety regulations and policies including DOE-STD-1212 Explosives Safety.
• High degree of skill in designing and developing training programs in a regulated environment.
• Experience managing qualification processes in a high-risk technical environment.

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Position Information

This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.

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• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
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Security Clearance

This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance.If you are selected, wewill initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if youmeet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.

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